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U.S. Seizes Iraqi Goods
From Media, Soldier

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Greg Bluestein Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated April 24, 2003 12:01 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Stepping up efforts to retrieve Iraqi contraband after the fall of Saddam Hussein, U.S. officials have seized a wide array of goods from journalists and others trying to smuggle war booty back to the U.S.

Gold-plated guns, knives, paintings and other Iraqi mementos found in the luggage of several members of the media who covered the war were confiscated over the past week in airports here and in Boston and London. These...